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Friday, May 1, 2015

Work and Gratitude

Work is living in relationship to the world.I put myself into the ground I tilland the bread I knead and bake.I build my shelter and my dayswith patience and the application of skill.I shape places for myselfand those entrusted to me.

Work molds the earth into a medium of love,making stones into bricks,and bridges,or visions into picturesand sounds and marks into wordsthat reach the heart.

Work is not selling myself,reducing myself to a product for others to consume.Work expresses me as a personand its rightful wage is respect,honor,stature as a human being,access to the elements of freedom,resources to live as a personand to care for those entrusted to me.

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John Janaro is Associate Professor Emeritus of Theology at Christendom College. He is a Catholic theologian, and a writer, researcher, and lecturer on issues in religion and culture. His most recent book is NEVER GIVE UP: MY LIFE AND GOD'S MERCY. He is married to
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